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22Oct2009

Cillian Murphy Talks 'Inception,' Says Nothing

DateThursday, October 22, 2009 at 6:37AM
If you don't by now, you should know that we won't learn a great deal about Christopher Nolan's Inception for a while, maybe not until next July, when it's finally released. And that's probably for the best. This is exactly the kind of movie people mean when they say things like "Why do they always give away too much about movies in trailers?"

So when MTV went trolling to get some answers about Inception from Cillian Murphy, he unsurprisingly talked around anything of real value. "He showed me the whole script. It’s very very complex and amazing," proclaimed Murphy. "I’m hugely excited for next year when it comes out."

There's a key sentence in there: "He showed me the whole script." That tells us there's more than a snowball's chance in hell other cast members didn't see the whole script.

There's a lot of debate about that in general, whether actors should know the motivations of the other characters or whether they should only be allowed access into their own worlds, but here, I'm thinking it has more to do with the script being in lockdown than anything else. Perhaps Murphy's role is so wide-ranging he really did need to see the whole thing, or maybe Nolan just trusts him not to babble. And he didn't.

"It’s conceptual. It doesn’t fit into any genre," Murphy said, magically erasing any hint of substance from his answer. "There are elements of different types of things in it but it is all from Chris’ imagination. I’ve never read anything close to it before."

Thanks for nothing.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

WB employees, producers, actors...all working on this project...most have no clue what it is even about. But hey, when you make a billion dollars on one movie, why not trust the guy? Right?

Thursday, October 22, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterW

Lessee... genre, genre... mind stuff, dream control. Alfred Bester, anyone? Phillip K. Dick...? Now, they didn't work in any sort of genre, did they? WAIT: HOLD ON. Could this be... science fiction, Cillian...?

Thursday, October 22, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBlip

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